Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.